Feinstein targets Senate for assault weapon vote

It will come to the floor of the Senate and — up or down — “it will get a vote,” Feinstein tells us. And while chances are it will fail, Feinstein, and by extension President Obama, will put the Senate on record.

Feinstein had a few words for Senators on both sides of the aisle who may want to duck the hot-button issue of curbing assault weapons and mega-bullet magazines.

“Stand up and be counted,’’ she says. “That’s why we’re here.”

Feinstein admits she was taken by surprise when Senate President and fellow Democrat Harry Reid dropped her assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban, saying it would likely doom the overall gun control package being proposed.

“But I don’t give up,” Feinstein said, adding that Reid told her she could submit the ban as an amendment — and that she intended to continue pounding the public platform for its passage.

The move is not going to win Feinstein any popularity contests with fence-sitters on either side of the aisle, especially those up for re-election in the next cycle.

But that does not appear to faze the Senator.

“We all take tough votes,” Feinstein said. “Votes for war, votes for peace – and you live with those votes.”

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